MUMBAI: The illegal bungalow of fugitive businessman Nirav Modi on Alibaug beach will be demolished as per the buy of the Raigad district collector, the Maharashtra governing administration advised the Bombay substantial court docket on Thursday. Modi was permitted design on 376 sqm in Kihim, but he occupied 1,071sq m.

In 2010, Modi was issued a demolition recognize. As quite a few as 58 other such constructions by locals on Alibaug seashores will also be razed. The substantial court was hearing a PIL by NGO Shambhuraje Yuvakranti against the state’s inaction in opposition to illegally-manufactured bungalows in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) locations in Alibaug.

On Thursday, assistant govt pleader Priyabhushan Kakade informed a bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice Makarand Karnik that Raigad collector Vijay Suryawanshi issued the demolition get after reviewing an earlier get in 2011 by the then collector.

The 2011 purchase arrived just after Modi moved HC complicated a demolition detect served on him. The HC had, on February 4, 2010, directed the sub-divisional officer, Alibaug, to listen to him and move a closing purchase. The SDO buy, nonetheless, arrived only on June 2 this yr and it mentioned Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority is the authority to come to a decision no matter whether there was of violation of laws.

The 2011 get said that Modi’s farmhouse had been in existence prior to 1986 and was not in excess of the initial development room authorized. Then, the condition explained to the HC that the existing Raigad collector will overview the 2011 purchase. Suryawanshi’s affidavit set apart the 2011 purchase and “directed to demolish the said unlawful construction”.